Ski

Short regular skis would work better than plastic skis, although you'd want to use beaters, for sure. I've skied really steep muddy hills and those big piles of stones at quarries on 160cm skis, and as long as you can do jump turns, anything is skiable. If you have wheels or treads, then you'll make carved turns. With anything else, such as regular or plastic skis, you skid. As to stone quarries, the one on Rt. 29, just south of Lambertville, NJ, put up signs and extra barbed wire to keep us out. A stone pile is awesome, sort of like a super-steep headwall, with slough that races past you. Get it just right and you can finish out the run with a mini-avalanche.

Excellent, Jib!!! Heheheheheh....time to get busy!

Nah, he knows better than to let a headshot get in the hands of degenerates.

Atomic has been waiting a long time to post that bikini pic...hmmmm, I say it's war.

Actually, I've been experimenting with a really old Photoshop 4.0 version and trying to rewrite the stamp and lasso features to directly combine both with 'select color'. I managed to completely corrupt the program after three hours of work, then gave up. The original CB pic was a good example of what I wanted it for. There are about a dozen features I hope Adobe addresses in the 9 version.

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The Backyard Blizzard company was charging $3000 for a basic unit until people started to figure out the technology and how to put them together with stuff from their local hardware store. Show us some pics of what you've done.

I just hope he comes back...

Pic from Monday at A Basin...

Yeah, a good cause, too...Glover was just renamed to the Developement squad in press releases, then they were being followed up with 'accident' stories and obits. She won a NH race in February, beating one of your former CAT teammates.

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Hey, it looks fine to me...

Ha, well it's 48 degrees in my backyard and too cold to grass ski (yesterday rocked!). I was just looking around the 'Beach MB and noticed this: "Hello, I want to get an insight as to all the people working as w.p.a.s this year. I know I saw everyone at the meeting, but I really didn't get to know anyone. Please post if you'll be one of my coworkers this summer! p.s. is anyone else as CONFUSED about that first aid book as I am?" I think that would make a great CB waterpark employee T-shirt: Is anyone else as CONFUSED about that first aid book as I am?

'Sup Seth? Yeah, but as soon as the electronic monitor comes off my ankle, I'm outta here.

Of course it is, 'Dude. When my friends come to visit from Colorado, they are too scared to ski around here. One of them called Rocket the steepest and iciest lift line she'd ever been in. She stopped near the Sullivan lift for a minute and five people skied over her tails.

Freshly GROOMED grass, skimom.

~~cool, thanks~~ They say Jack Frost has a summer chair. That would be great.

I have to do a road trip for a few days, but when I get back I'm going to call around to the ski areas and see who allows people to "stroll" around their property. I can't imagine they all act like CB Nazis. Tanglwood comes to mind for a little more vertical and that's in the middle of an ungated community. Alpine Mt. has an awesome headwall for laps. Have to see...

Did you try put them on down toward the bottom of the pole and sliding them up toward the handle?

Ha, we hardly ever use our ski hill until all the other mountains close and, by then, you have to hike for your turns. It is a nice place on a snowy Friday or Saturday night to head over and have a hot chocolate and couple of quick runs. Yeah, 'Dude, Spyder pole guards. Why, uh, are your's missing?

Well, there are organized FIS races for GS and SL, and there are lots of pics of kids racing in their exact ski race 'form'. This was my first day in almost 15 years on grass skis...and the rentals I had used were absolute beaters. You turn with the same pressure as alpine skis and you feel like you are riding on rails, with no skidding. As far as the lift, I went to our community ski hill planning on hiking for turns, but one of our maintenance guys was there and flipped the switch. He just thought it was going to be funny to watch me crash on the headwall, so the lifts were just for today.

It's not really steep, so I'm going pretty slow, but fast enough to keep them turning. Even on skis you have to skate to get any speed here. You feel like your going fast because your on 90's, though. But it really is pretty close to actual skiing.

It's like skiing on short skis in really sticky snow. They work best on closely mowed grass. I came down the unmowed headwall and it reminded me of powder skiing with a one inch base of snow underneath; I just didn't know when I was going to hit a hole or rock. Being able to wear your own ski boots is a huge plus ('though I wore my softer, non-race boots for better flex), as opposed to any inline skates.

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